This article will be studied during the week of March 23rd through 29th.

How will you respond to the ransom?

Theme text, The love the Christ has compels us.

2 Corinthians 5.14.

Song 18, grateful for the ransom.14. Song 18. Grateful for the ransom. Focus. How all of us can show that we

appreciate the ransom. Paragraphs 1 and 2 question, what should the ransom sacrifice of Jesus

compel us to do, and why?

If you had been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building, would you not feel

indebted to the person who saved your life? Even if others were saved too, you would likely

want to express your appreciation personally to show that you do not take your rescue for granted.

As the preceding article explained, we cannot rescue ourselves from the effects of inherited sin.

However, the ransom's sacrifice of Jesus can rescue us by providing, one, forgiveness of the sins we commit,

two, hope of being completely healed from our sinful condition, and three, reconciliation with God.

As a result, we have the prospect of living forever in Jehovah's new world. Truly,

the ransom highlights Jesus' love for people, a love that he had long before he was born as a

perfect human. The Apostle Paul wrote that the love the Christ has compels us.

2. Corinthians 5, 14, and 15 reads,

For the love the Christ has compels us, because this is what we have concluded,

that one man died for all. So then all had died. And he died for all so that those who live

should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised up.

This means that Jesus' love should move us to respond in some way, to show that we do not take his

ransom sacrifice for granted. The picture for paragraphs one and two shows the man from the previous

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